Bits: How do you pronounce Okawville?

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Mar 9, 2018 at 2:03 PMMar 9, 2018 at 8:24 PM

If you run into someone from Okawville this weekend, we hope you don’t actually run into them, especially if you are driving a motorized vehicle. But we also want you to know how to pronounce the name of their town.

All Illinoisans who have traveled outside the state should understand this. We’ve grown weary of rubes from other places rhyming our state with “noise.”

So here’s the deal: It’s OH-kuh-vil.

If you come from far enough south in the United States, you will be given a pass if you pronounce it OH-kuh-vull. But under no circumstances are you to pronounce it Oh-KAW-vill. The people who live there are not crows.